Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend! Here’s one of the treats we indulged in after our BBQ yesterday… Margarita Cupcakes! I’ve been wanting to try this concept out ever since last month’s margarita cupcakes post, and am happy to report they tasted great (and very much like their namesake)! I went for the “shortcut” route and modified a recipe that utilizes boxed cake mix as the foundation instead of doing everything from scratch (it was a holiday, after all!).

Made these this past weekend – SUPER YUMMY! Everyone that ate them LOVED THEM! The frosting makes the cupcake (I am going to play around with the cake recipe a little bit). I did need more than 5 cups of powdered sugar.

I tried out the margarita cupcakes. As Catherine posted above, they were Delicious and a hit at the jewelry party I hosted. Pictures on my blog – I did give credit and linked back to this page as well as the vegan recipe link. Thanks for sharing this recipe!

thanks! I found some like that at the dollar store today but they aren’t solid colors they have hibiscus flowers on them but they are still pretty. Going to display apricot cupcakes on them to celebrate the apricot fiesta :)

Hi Debbie & Julianne – The orange “flower” plate is actually from HomeGoods – it came in a set of 4 (4 different colors). Their stuff is seasonal though and I bought these quite a while ago, so I don’t know if they’d still have them!

Help? About to max second batch and see if it comes out. Do you add the cake mix plus the ingredients it calls for on the box and then the other ingredients you have listed above: more eggs, veg oil, the liqour etc.

I made these cupcakes for two parties this weekend – an Opening Ceremony Party for the 2012 Summer Olympics and an Engagement Party the following night. They were huge hits at each party. I only had to make one batch of frosting and I had enough for the 44 cupcakes I ended up making (doubled the cupcake portion of the recipe).

New baker here! What do you mean by preparing the muffin pan? Could I lightly grease them or do I need to use paper cups?

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